Last 3 months headlines – Page 33
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Post Office live: Vennells faces questions on lawyer integrity and PR spin
Former chief executive from 2012 to 2019 makes her second appearance before the public inquiry, with questions about her top lawyers set to feature.
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My lawyers didn’t show me key reports, Vennells tells inquiry
Former chief executive also claims to have not known for five years about prosecutions.
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Mighty Quinn winning the ‘war’
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan hikes its newly qualified solicitor wedge to a purse-purpling £180,000.
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Former City traders set to take legal fight to Supreme Court
Tom Hayes, jailed for rate-rigging, calls for UK legal system to 'align with the rest of the world' and for 'these miscarriages of justice to be corrected.'
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Civil legal aid crisis: Family provider spends £40k a year to triage enquiries
Law Society calls on government to use the study to set fees at a realistic and sustainable level.
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Magistrate given formal advice over ‘untruth’ about fellow magistrates
Complaint was made to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office that the magistrate had spread a ‘lie’.
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Receptionist who couldn’t say law firm’s name loses at tribunal
Temporary receptionist ‘acted unreasonably’ in pursuing employment claims against Wykeham-Hurford Sheppard & Son.
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High Court finds anti-protest legislation unlawful
Lord Justice Green and Mr Justice Kerr uphold two of campaign group Liberty’s four grounds of legal challenge against government.
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Employment tribunal hearings delayed to 2026
Targets not being met for recruiting judges to handle huge backlog of cases.
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Sanctions bite as UK courts lose out on Russian cases
London's international appeal remains strong, with record numbers of foreign litigants.
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Post Office live: Paula Vennells 'did not know' her organisation prosecuted people
Paula Vennells, chief executive of Post Office Ltd from 2012 to 2019, makes her long-awaited appearance before the public inquiry, for the first of three days of questioning.
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Bar watchdog handed extra powers
BSB will be able to impose interim curbs on a barrister’s freedom to practise where misconduct has been found.
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CEO of top litigation funder warns against ‘unthoughtful’ industry reforms
Burford boss Christopher Bogart dismisses fee caps as a ‘dumb idea’ - but the company is comfortable with the looming prospect of regulation.
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High Court hears landmark legal aid challenge over school exclusion appeals
Claimant's lawyers say case is about access to justice in an 'important and sensitive area'.
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Firm to pay for staff to get neurodiversity assessment and help
International practice vows to uphold a ‘culture of greater awareness and understanding’.
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Post Office Inquiry: Five legal issues Paula Vennells will have to address
Former chief executive will give evidence over the next three days.
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SRA fines firm £121k after wrong amounts paid to beneficiaries
Norfolk firm failed to rectify client account shortage for eight years.
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No default costs penalty for failed fundamental dishonesty plea, rules CoA
Court says trial judge was entitled to rule out indemnity costs despite ‘baffling’ allegation.
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'Get-rich-quick' claims dismissed as hopeless and abusive
Master says near-identical financial claims gave the appearance of deceit and contempt of court.
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Court approves sale of properties linked to Axiom Ince boss
Administrators have also secured a bankruptcy order against Pragnesh Modhwadia.